英文讀后感之呼嘯山莊讀后感

Published in 1847, WUtheRING HEIGHTS was not well received by the reading public, many of whom condemned it as sordid, vulgar, and unnatural--and author Emily Bronte went to her grave in 1848 believing that her only novel was a failure. It was not until 1850, when WUTHERING HEIGHTS received a second printing with an introduction by Emily's sister Charlotte, that it attracted a wide readership. And from that point the reputation of the book has never looked back. Today it is widely recognized as one of the GREat novels of English literature.
Even so, WUtheRING HEIGHTS continues to divide readers. It is not a pretty love story; rather, it is swirling tale of largely unlikeable people caught up in obsessive love that turns to dark madness. It is cruel, violent, dark and brooding, and many people find it extremely unpleasant. And yet--it possesses a grandeur of language and design, a sense of tremendous pity and GREat loss that sets it apart from virtually every other novel written.

the novel is told in the form of an extended FLASHback. After a visit to his strange landlord, a newcomer to the area desires to know the history of the family--which he receives from Nelly Deans, a servant who introduces us to the Earnshaw family who once resided in the house known as Wuthering Heights. It was once a cheerful place, but Old Earnshaw adopted a "Gipsy" child who he named Heathcliff. And Catherine, daughter of the house, found in him the perfect companion: wild, rude, and as proud and cruel as she. But although Catherine loves him, even recognizes him as her soulmate, she cannot lower herself to marry so far below her social station. She instead marries another, and in so doing sets in motion an obsession that will destroy them all.

WUtheRING HEIGHTS is a bit difficult to "get into;" the opening chapters are so dark in their portrait of the end result of this obsessive love that they are somewhat off-putting. But they feed into the flow of the work in a remarkable way, setting the stage for one of the most remarkable structures in all of literature, a story that circles upon itself in a series of repetitions as it plays out across two generations. Catherine and Heathcliff are equally remarkable, both vicious and cruel, and yet never able to shed their impossible love no matter how brutally one may wound the other.

As the novel coils further into alcoholism, seduction, and one of the most elaborately imagined plans of revenge it gathers into a ghostly tone: Heathcliff, driven to madness by a woman who is not there but who seems reflected in every part of his world--dragging her corpse from the grave, hearing her calling to him from the moors, escalating his brutality not for the sake of brutality but so that her memory will never fade, so that she may never leave his mind until death itself. Yes, this is madness, insanity, and there is no peace this side of the grave or even beyond.

It is a stunning novel, frightening, inexorable, unsettling, filled with unbridled passion that makes one cringe. Even if you do not like it, you should read it at least once--and those who do like it will return to it again and again

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• 匪夷所思  匪：不是；夷：平常。指言談行動離奇古怪，不是一般人根據(jù)常情所能想象的。
• 阿姑阿翁  阿：名詞的前綴。姑：丈夫的母親。翁：丈夫的父親。指公公婆婆。
• 安如盤石  安：安穩(wěn)；盤石：大石頭。像盤石一樣安穩(wěn)不動。形容非常穩(wěn)固，不可動搖。
• 匪夷匪惠  夷：殷末周初的伯夷；惠：春秋時魯國的柳下惠。既不是伯夷，又不是柳下惠；不具備這兩位賢人的品德。形容才德不高而又駕馭的人。
• 分茅裂土  原指古代帝王分封諸侯時舉行的儀式。后稱分封諸侯。
• 百舌之聲  比喻嘮叨、多嘴。
• 百折不回  折：挫折。比喻意志堅強，無論受到多少次挫折，毫不動搖退縮。
• 誹譽在俗  誹：指誹謗；譽：贊揚；俗：風(fēng)氣、習(xí)慣。誹謗或贊揚在于當(dāng)時的風(fēng)習(xí)。后來引申指風(fēng)氣、習(xí)慣的作用非常大。
• 搬石砸腳  比喻本來想害別人，結(jié)果害了自己。
• 分毫不爽  比喻沒有絲毫差錯。
• 閉門羹  拒絕客人進(jìn)門叫做讓客人吃閉門羹。
• 飛黃騰達(dá)  飛黃：傳說中神馬名；騰達(dá)：上升，引伸為發(fā)跡，宦途得意。形容駿馬奔騰飛馳。比喻驟然得志，官職升得很快。
• 飛蛾投火  象蛾子撲火一樣。比喻自找死路、自取滅亡。
• 飛云掣電  掣：閃過。像流云飛和閃電一樣。形容非常迅速。
• 非分之想  非分：不屬自己分內(nèi)的。妄想得到本分以外的好處。